Postmambo Studies
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Immmersive music seminars involving travel, led by Ned Sublette. No website, DM for details. Reposts appreciated.
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¨For the first time since the early 1960s, private businesses are importing more food and goods to Cuba than the communist government. Likewise, private retailers on the island are now selling more than government-run businesses since the early days of the Cuban Revolution.¨
December 30, 2025 at 3:45 AM
¨For the first time since the early 1960s, private businesses are importing more food and goods to Cuba than the communist government. Likewise, private retailers on the island are now selling more than government-run businesses since the early days of the Cuban Revolution.¨
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Carel Pedre is in ICE custody, apparently being held at the brutal Everglades detention camp. M sezi. haitiantimes.com/2025/12/26/c...
ICE moves Carel Pedre to ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ as #freecarel calls and girlfriend emerge
Carel Pedre moved to ICE’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ in Florida. A source said he was under suicide watch.
haitiantimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Carel Pedre is in ICE custody, apparently being held at the brutal Everglades detention camp. M sezi. haitiantimes.com/2025/12/26/c...
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Remembering Alex Chilton on his birthday. Lovely 1973 photo by William Eggleston
December 28, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Remembering Alex Chilton on his birthday. Lovely 1973 photo by William Eggleston
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Tomorrow's Substack article explains what this book gets wrong about African history
December 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Tomorrow's Substack article explains what this book gets wrong about African history
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At breakfast, after snow.
December 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
At breakfast, after snow.
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Monument to the immigrant in the fog, New Orleans
December 27, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Monument to the immigrant in the fog, New Orleans
CDMX: Danzón at Salón Los Ángeles. Don’t miss it
Okay friends, my wife and I are spending time in Mexico City and Oaxaca.
Please send us your favorite restaurants, taquerias, art galleries, museums and places to explore!
Please send us your favorite restaurants, taquerias, art galleries, museums and places to explore!
December 27, 2025 at 1:16 AM
CDMX: Danzón at Salón Los Ángeles. Don’t miss it
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Film ICE activity. If you feel ICE agents were doing anything inappropriate, send the video to AG Letitia James using this link:
ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...
ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...
December 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Film ICE activity. If you feel ICE agents were doing anything inappropriate, send the video to AG Letitia James using this link:
ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...
ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...
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Greg Grandin: “the White House is implicitly globalizing the Monroe Doctrine . . . the United States intends to deal with the rest of the world as it deals with Latin America, to seize, sanction and kill with impunity.” Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/o...
Opinion | Trump Wants to Carve Up the World. It’s a Blueprint for Disaster.
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Greg Grandin: “the White House is implicitly globalizing the Monroe Doctrine . . . the United States intends to deal with the rest of the world as it deals with Latin America, to seize, sanction and kill with impunity.” Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/o...
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vimeo.com/1033719536/e... Recorded at Zinc Bar, NYC. Zaccai Curtis, piano; Luques Curtis, bass; Mark Whitfield, Jr., drums.
2024 11 26 Curtis Brothers: Carol of the Bells
Zinc Bar, NYC Zaccai Curtis, piano; Luqués Curtis, bass; Mark Whitfield, Jr., drums.
vimeo.com
December 21, 2024 at 10:11 PM
vimeo.com/1033719536/e... Recorded at Zinc Bar, NYC. Zaccai Curtis, piano; Luques Curtis, bass; Mark Whitfield, Jr., drums.
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Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum was dubbed one of NYT’s 67 Most Stylish People of 2025. Sheinbaum was the only sitting head of state to make the list, and told reporters credit should go to the Indigenous artisans whose embroidered garments she often wears, calling them “the pride of the nation”
December 23, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum was dubbed one of NYT’s 67 Most Stylish People of 2025. Sheinbaum was the only sitting head of state to make the list, and told reporters credit should go to the Indigenous artisans whose embroidered garments she often wears, calling them “the pride of the nation”
Postmambo Official Anthem of Navidad for all time. Remembering Rafael Ithier.
open.spotify.com/track/1aK5JA...
open.spotify.com/track/1aK5JA...
El Arbolito
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December 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Postmambo Official Anthem of Navidad for all time. Remembering Rafael Ithier.
open.spotify.com/track/1aK5JA...
open.spotify.com/track/1aK5JA...
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professional associations asking for donations 3-10x a year is 😭😭😭, my $ is going a million different directions to mutual aid, STOP emailing
December 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
professional associations asking for donations 3-10x a year is 😭😭😭, my $ is going a million different directions to mutual aid, STOP emailing
This is not what I thought “I Will Survive” meant
Gloria Gaynor revealed as MAGA donor after being picked by Trump for Kennedy Center Honor
Gloria Gaynor revealed as MAGA donor after Trump picks her for Kennedy Center Honor
‘I Will Survive’ singer has reportedly donated nearly $22,000 to right-wing politicians and organizations since 2023
www.the-independent.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
This is not what I thought “I Will Survive” meant
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I've avoided all Rama Duwaji discourse up to now because none of it is any of our business, but now that this big cover profile has dropped: What a lovely, grounded, and intelligent young person — just like her husband. NYC, we're lucky.
www.thecut.com/article/rama...
www.thecut.com/article/rama...
Rama Duwaji, First Lady of New York City
The 28-year-old artist is excited for her husband Zohran Mamdani’s new job. Just don’t call her the mayor’s plus one.
www.thecut.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I've avoided all Rama Duwaji discourse up to now because none of it is any of our business, but now that this big cover profile has dropped: What a lovely, grounded, and intelligent young person — just like her husband. NYC, we're lucky.
www.thecut.com/article/rama...
www.thecut.com/article/rama...
“In 2006, he recorded a Ned Sublette song called “Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other.” “I’ve known straight and gay people all my life,” he told Texas Monthly. “I can’t tell the difference. People are people where I came from.””
Bob Dylan attempts to explain Willie Nelson in The New Yorker's profile of Willie: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
December 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
“In 2006, he recorded a Ned Sublette song called “Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other.” “I’ve known straight and gay people all my life,” he told Texas Monthly. “I can’t tell the difference. People are people where I came from.””
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Bob Dylan attempts to explain Willie Nelson in The New Yorker's profile of Willie: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
December 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Bob Dylan attempts to explain Willie Nelson in The New Yorker's profile of Willie: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Organ-tuning books in English churches provide notes on a warming climate
Organ-tuning books in English churches provide notes on a warming climate
Researchers have realised the records are a ‘goldmine’ to study changes in environmental conditions
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Organ-tuning books in English churches provide notes on a warming climate
Anybody got a gift link?
www.wsj.com/world/americ...
www.wsj.com/world/americ...
U.S. Oil Blockade of Venezuela Pushes Cuba Toward Collapse
Cuba’s economy, dependent on cheap Venezuelan oil for decades, now struggles to function as a result of the U.S. military’s buildup in the Caribbean and the sharp drop in oil shipments from Venezuela...
www.wsj.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Anybody got a gift link?
www.wsj.com/world/americ...
www.wsj.com/world/americ...
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Earlier I bleeted about how AI cannot do historical research for you. There's something else it can't do: write.
Sure, it can follow rules and process data to string words into coherent sentences. But it cannot *write.*
An excerpt from a piece I wrote for WaPo years back on biography as art.
Sure, it can follow rules and process data to string words into coherent sentences. But it cannot *write.*
An excerpt from a piece I wrote for WaPo years back on biography as art.
December 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Earlier I bleeted about how AI cannot do historical research for you. There's something else it can't do: write.
Sure, it can follow rules and process data to string words into coherent sentences. But it cannot *write.*
An excerpt from a piece I wrote for WaPo years back on biography as art.
Sure, it can follow rules and process data to string words into coherent sentences. But it cannot *write.*
An excerpt from a piece I wrote for WaPo years back on biography as art.
“Parece una rumba.”
December 20, 2025 at 9:33 PM
“Parece una rumba.”
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This clown came back to town, now it's about to go down. See you there, NOLA!
#freetheswamp #nokingsnola #indivisiblenola #fuckice
#freetheswamp #nokingsnola #indivisiblenola #fuckice
December 20, 2025 at 4:29 AM
This clown came back to town, now it's about to go down. See you there, NOLA!
#freetheswamp #nokingsnola #indivisiblenola #fuckice
#freetheswamp #nokingsnola #indivisiblenola #fuckice